The encounter with the objects in the Winnicott's thought
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Relational analysis, True and false self, Transitional phenomena, Object integrity, PlayingAbstract
The author proposes a reflection on the complex articulation of Winnicott’s thinking concerning object relations. In his writing about the use of an object, he emphasizes the use of the destructive drive to bestow the object with the dimension of otherness and the subject with the dimension of independence, based on the contact of his drive-ridden core. In theorizing the transitional object, Winnicott (1971) highlights the perceptive and sensory nature of this relation that opens to the encounter with the non-me object, without the subject’s psychic life risking annihilation – a relation that expands and enriches the subject’s mental container and his identification processes. To deal with this contradiction, concerning the presence of the object in the subject’s mental life, the notion of integrity of the objects formulated by Bollas (2009) is helpful. Emotional experiences are connected with the objects that initiate them. Bollas thinks that we construct our language through the intelligence of forms, configuring our life by choosing objects that are complete and whole. The wholeness of an object has the potential structure to trigger evocative processes.
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